![]() Maes at the
2013 World Ports Classic. | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Nikolas Maes |
Nickname | Nike |
Born | Kortrijk, Belgium | 9 April 1986
Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb; 12.0 st) |
Team information | |
Current team | Lotto–Dstny |
Discipline | Road |
Role |
|
Rider type |
|
Amateur teams | |
2005–2006 | Beveren 2000 |
2006 | Chocolade Jacques–Topsport Vlaanderen (stagiaire) |
Professional teams | |
2007–2009 | Chocolade Jacques–Topsport Vlaanderen |
2010–2016 | Quick-Step [2] |
2017–2020 | Lotto–Soudal [3] [4] |
Managerial team | |
2021– | Lotto–Soudal |
Nikolas Maes (born 9 April 1986) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2007 and 2020, for the Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator, Etixx–Quick-Step and Lotto–Soudal teams. [5] He now works as a directeur sportif for his final professional team, UCI WorldTeam Lotto–Dstny. [6]
Born in Kortrijk, Maes gained the first professional win of his career on the third stage of the Vuelta a Burgos around the province's capital city on 7 August 2009 while riding for the Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator cycle team.
On 9 September 2009 it was announced he would be joining Team RadioShack for the 2010 season. [7] However, his name was not on the team roster presented on 5 October 2009. [8] He subsequently signed with Quick-Step, winning the Young Rider classification of the Tour of Qatar in 2011 and the General Classification and Points Classification of the 2013 World Ports Classic in the Netherlands.
Media related to
Nikolas Maes at Wikimedia Commons
![]() Maes at the
2013 World Ports Classic. | |
Personal information | |
---|---|
Full name | Nikolas Maes |
Nickname | Nike |
Born | Kortrijk, Belgium | 9 April 1986
Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb; 12.0 st) |
Team information | |
Current team | Lotto–Dstny |
Discipline | Road |
Role |
|
Rider type |
|
Amateur teams | |
2005–2006 | Beveren 2000 |
2006 | Chocolade Jacques–Topsport Vlaanderen (stagiaire) |
Professional teams | |
2007–2009 | Chocolade Jacques–Topsport Vlaanderen |
2010–2016 | Quick-Step [2] |
2017–2020 | Lotto–Soudal [3] [4] |
Managerial team | |
2021– | Lotto–Soudal |
Nikolas Maes (born 9 April 1986) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2007 and 2020, for the Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator, Etixx–Quick-Step and Lotto–Soudal teams. [5] He now works as a directeur sportif for his final professional team, UCI WorldTeam Lotto–Dstny. [6]
Born in Kortrijk, Maes gained the first professional win of his career on the third stage of the Vuelta a Burgos around the province's capital city on 7 August 2009 while riding for the Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator cycle team.
On 9 September 2009 it was announced he would be joining Team RadioShack for the 2010 season. [7] However, his name was not on the team roster presented on 5 October 2009. [8] He subsequently signed with Quick-Step, winning the Young Rider classification of the Tour of Qatar in 2011 and the General Classification and Points Classification of the 2013 World Ports Classic in the Netherlands.
Media related to
Nikolas Maes at Wikimedia Commons